Eulerian Calculus for the Contraction in the Wasserstein Distance

DOI10.1137/050622420zbMath1094.58016OpenAlexW2018833892WikidataQ125839956 ScholiaQ125839956MaRDI QIDQ5470598

Felix Otto, Michael Westdickenberg

Publication date: 31 May 2006

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/33e742d9a3ba91f494cde3c912d57bff914d7125

zbMATH Keywords

contractionporous medium equationWasserstein distance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Gaussian processes (60G15) Inequalities; stochastic orderings (60E15) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65)

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